York city. Where we are just hours away from former president donald j trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern he is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. , where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight dawn forsman is preparing, setting up barricades outside the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States of america. Today trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense that the Indictment Strikes at the former president right for free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct not speech . Its criminalizing speech for this reason, what the president saw in the 2020 election was all these irregularities going on, he had the right to comment on
Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle, live from Msnbc Headquarters here in New York City where we are just hours away from former president Donald Trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern. He is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. Where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight, Law Enforcement is preparing setting up barricades outside of the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts. Including Conspiracy To Defraud the United States of america. Today, trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense. That the Indictment Strikes at the former president s right to free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct, not speech. Its criminalizing speech for this reason. With the president s
funeral service for tyre nichols this afternoon. it comes as details about what happened the night nichols encountered police are coming under new scrutiny. and we re learning more about the past conduct of some of the officers involved. more on that ahead. also this morning, bone chilling weather sweeping the nation. a triple threat of freezing rain, sleet and snow causes accidents, power outages and grounds thousands of flights. parts of the country are bracing for windchills that could dip as low as negative 60. we re tracking this brutal cold coming up. plus, face to face, after a public war of words over our country s debt limit as president biden and speaker mccarthy are set to meet at the white house this afternoon. the expectations according to our us who team could not be lower. what both sides are bringing to the table. and the 2024 gop presidential primary is about to get a little more crowded as former u.n. ambassador nikki haley moves closer to becoming for
expect november 8th, exactly four weeks from today as we say hello. i m bill hemmer. got your election red on. dana: exactly. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we love the mid-terms and catch you up on these latest ones. a couple changes you will want to know about. the latest forecast shows the republicans taking the house and win 231 seats. it could swell to as many as 246. bill: best case for democrats is 220 seats, about where they are right now. that would be enough for a razor thin house majority. dana: the senate is anyone s game. we have 47 races going democrat, 49 republican. that means it all comes down to the four toss-ups we ve been talking about, arizona, georgia, nevada, pennsylvania. bill: the nationwide conversation is shifting. majority of independents say they re more focused on the economy than voting rights and democracy. a trend that would favor republicans. dana: alexandria hoff has more from washington. the numbers just out. al
Violent clashes continued this week at colleges and and universities across the country as Police Departments from New York City to los angeles moved in to clear propalestinian encampments and Arrest Protesters in scenes reminiscent of the vietnam war era. After more than a week of silence, President Biden addressed the growing campus chaos on thursday. Theres the right to protest but not the the right the cause chaos with. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations, none of this is a peaceful protest. Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must if never heed to disorder or denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education. Paul joining me now is former indiana governor and former president of purdue university, mitch daniel withs. Great to see you, mitch. Thanks for joining us. So when you were president of purdue, did you ever have an episode like this where y